Theatre Final
Kabuki theatre was originated by
A Shinto priestess
________ most accurately defines the term unities?
A neoclassicist mandate for playwrights, formulated by Italian critics.
The central conflict and movement through a drama is referred to as the ______ of the play?
Action
Who is considered the first important Greek dramatist?
Aeschylus
Provides the most intimate performance space?
Arena stage
6-8 weeks out
Auditions, Callbacks, Castings
The arrangements and movements of performers relative to each other and to the stage space is called?
Blocking
When a costume is created in a shop it is called?
Building
The activity of a performer onstage, such as the opening of a letter or making of a bed, is described as?
Business
_____ Is not one of the Neoclassical rules of unity?
Character
A type of play that pokes fun at the social manners of the upper class is?
Comedy of manners
Which person blocks or stages the play?
Director
Which person researches productions and criticism?
Dramaturg
Main task of the modern-day director is to?
Draw disparate elements together to create a unified
Last few rehearsals
Dress rehearsals
A movie theatre is configured like a thrust theatre.
False
Commedia characters did not wear costumes.
False
Kathakali is an indian dance-drama form.
False
The god Dionyus, to who Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death and chastity.
False
The plot and the story are the same thing.
False
Thespis is considered the first playwright.
False
Unlike African Americans, Asians escaped being cast as stereotypes.
False
Within the theatrical setting, the designer tends to act independently?
False
When a beam of light is aimed at a particular area on the stage, it is said to be
Focused
The word agitpop applies to?
Have a strong, political or social agenda
Who believed that drama should both instruct and entertain?
Horace
Bunraku
Japanese puppet theatre
The dramatic form that emphasizes suspense and excitement and is primarily escapist in form
Melodrama
A _______ uses religious characters and religious themes to teach a lesson.
Morality play
Sound called for in the script that usually comes from recognizable sources is called?
Motivated sound
In a ______, action occurs on several stages simultaneously?
Multifocus theatre
_______ is not a necessary component of a theatrical event?
Music
A _____ dramatizes a series of biblical events.
Mystery play
Which two forms of Asian theatre include long narrow bridges used for actor entrances?
No and kabuki
Which person is responsible for raising money to finance the productions?
Producer
Which person oversees the budget?
Producer
3-6 months out
Production team creative meetings
A "fourth wall theatre" describes?
Proscenium stage
The term nuyorican refers to
Puerto Rican culture in New York
When costumes are taken from inventory it is called?
Pulling
First few rehersals
Read thru + table work
The strum und drag (storm and stress) movement was the forerunner of?
Romanticism
A characteristic of all art is that it is?
Selective
Native American and feminist theatre company that combines feminism, storytelling and other theatrical traditions.
Spiderwoman Theatre
Which person communicates the rehearsal schedules to performers?
Stage manager
It is very important for directors to create interesting, visual composition with the actors in space: this is known as creating effective?
Stage pictures
One week before
Technical rehersals
This element is an essential aspect of the performing arts?
The need for an interpreter.
Developed by the Greeks ______ was also the type of threatre space used during Shakespeare's time?
Thrust stage
A designer's ground plan shows the exact locations of the scenic elements in a set?
True
A light plot is a detailed drafting of the theatre space that indicates where each lighting instrument is placed.
True
Art can best be understood as a mirror: an extension or projection of how we live, think and feel.
True
As long as there have been theatrical productions, there has been someone filling the role as director.
True
As opposed to music and the visual arts, theatre is a fully collaborative art form involving different specialists who share a common vision for a unified production.
True
Individual scenic units called mansinos were created for medieval cycle plays and actors performed in front of them.
True
Kabuki plays feature beautiful scenic effects and also include the first known use of a revolving stage.
True
Kabuki was performed first by all female troops, the by boys then finally by all male companies.
True
No one knows how theatre began, and where and when it originated.
True
One disadvantage of the proscenium stage is that it tends to lose the intimacy that is found in other types of theatre spaces.
True
The federal theatre project of the 1930's was created to help theatre artists through the Great Depression
True
The overriding concern of the neoclassical was versimilitude.
True
The presence of conflict and tension is necessary for drama to exist.
True
Theatre is the foundation of all drama.
True
Theatre of the Oppressed refers to a theatrical movement started by playwright Augusto Boal
True
Theatre was so popular in the nineteenth century that several theatre riots resulted from audiences' passion.
True
There were a number of significant female playwrights during the Restoration era.
True
To accommodate the new middle class audience, both continental and English theatres became larger during the eighteenth century.
True
When audiences today watch a play at one of our nation's many theatre festivals, they are sharing a kind of live theatre experience that has existed for 2,500 years.
True
A stage set should tell the audience?
When the play takes place, where it takes place and what kind of characters the play is about
What term is used when all lights are shut off?
blackout
First few weeks
blocking rehersals
The type of performance space associated with street theatre is the
created, or found space
The Bibiena family is noted for their work as?
designers
satire
employs wit and irony to expose evil and foolishness
The noises of everday life that help create verisimilitude of production are called
environmental sounds
Naturalism
everything on stage in this form of theatre looks like it was lifted directly from everyday life.
Shadow puppets are actually made of what material?
intricately carved leather
tragic comedy
mixes serious and comedy
comedy
one of the primary genres; devoted to provoking amusement and laughter
Represenatative/Quintessenntial characters
ordinary characters who embody an entire group
The presentation of extended autobiographical monolgues is characteristic of
performance art
Not an innovation in the nineteenth century theatre architecture?
pole and chariot system for scene change
The scene-shifting method of changing wings to back shutters was developed by Italian Giacomo Torelli is known as?
pole-and-chariot system.
tradgey
premised on the fact that the world can be cruel and unjust
heroic drama
similar to tragedy, but with an optimistic worldview
domestic drama
stories of everyday people, centered on family
Strike
take down set.
Postmodernist directors are noted for
textual deconstruction
Theatre of cruelty
theatrical movement often bombards the viewers senses
farce
thrives on exaggeration, broad physical humor, elaborate plots and laughter
Burlesque
type of comic that relies on gross exaggeration and occasional vulgarity
From a practical standpoint, the chief function of lighting is for?
visibilty
In a well-made play, the obligatory scene is the scene?
wherein the opposed characters confront each other
Last few weeks
work/run rehersals